Monday, January 10, 2005

Five cars for Ricky

A while ago, Ricky asked me to recommend five new cars for him. His original choices were the Corolla and the Astra both for under $25,000 or thereabouts. I gave him a short-list of 5:
  1. Toyota Corolla
  2. Holden Astra
  3. Mazda3 Neo
  4. Peugeot 307
  5. Renault Megane
Obviously the 307 and Megane are left-field choices and are more risky as short-term prospect due to typical (though unwarranted, IMO) French car lead-balloon-like depreciation. (I own a 10-year-old Peugeot - they make great used buys, in part because of the afore-said depreciation)

There are other cars in the price range, Ford's Focus, Mitsubishi's Lancer and Nissan's Pulsar most prominently but for various reasons, they aren't the pick of the bunch, all other things being equal.

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